Art Laurent

Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser! The new
MyMusicCloud app enables users to listen to their music continuously,
via Conduit-powered Community Toolbars, while surfing the web without
locking them to a single website.

MyMusicCloud uniquely addresses the needs of users who want to access
and play music – online or offline – on any mobile device, tablet, or
personal computer from anywhere in the world. MyMusicCloud enables
users to synchronize their iTunes and other media players across
virtually every type of device including Blackberry, Samsung, Android
phones, HTC, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Apple's iPhone or
iPad. For example, users can listen to all of their Apple iTunes
collection and other media players on an Apple iPad together with an
Android, Blackberry or Nokia phone.

"I've tried numerous cloud and online music services and MyMusicCloud
stands apart as truly one of the best music solutions out there," said
Aviad Rabinovitch, Content Manager for Conduit and former Head of
Music at Orange. "We’re thrilled to be able to offer the app both to
publishers and users in the Conduit Network."

Existing users of MyMusicCloud can enjoy the convenience of fast
access to new express features without having to login to their
MyMusicCloud accounts. New users can explore MyMusicCloud using the
app and can then sign up for the full MyMusicCloud service.

The new MyMusicCloud app is immediately available for free and it can
be seamlessly added to any of the Conduit-powered toolbars currently
in use by over 250 million users. Once users have had a chance to
explore MyMusicCloud from the toolbar, they can choose to sign up for
the MyMusicCloud service. MyMusicCloud offers online storage of up to
2 GB of songs for free and the ability to purchase additional storage
starting at $10 annually for an additional 5 GB. Users in the U.S.,
Canada and the U.K. can purchase and download music from the
MyMusicCloud store. The store offers over 11 million songs for prices
starting at $.19.

Website: http://apps.conduit.com/?appid=19635...5-7b97366854ff

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In article
<3006dd2f-3e81-4099-92d4-64bb583407ea@z1g2000vbx.googlegroups.com>, Art
Laurent <artlaurent88@gmail.com> wrote:

> Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!

why would i want to do that?

rest of your spam deleted.

Todd Allcock

At 11 Dec 2011 16:37:44 -0500 nospam wrote:
> In article
> <3006dd2f-3e81-4099-92d4-64bb583407ea@z1g2000vbx.googlegroups.com>, Art
> Laurent <artlaurent88@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!
>
> why would i want to do that?

Cross platform access to content?


> rest of your spam deleted.

Yep, any inherent usefulness of the idea or that service certainly
doesn't justify spamming this group...

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In article <jc3h5j$9ni$2@dont-email.me>, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

> > > Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!
> >
> > why would i want to do that?
>
> Cross platform access to content?

why would anyone want to use a browser to play music rather than a
dedicated music app, most of which are multi-platform and designed for
exactly that task?

> > rest of your spam deleted.
>
> Yep, any inherent usefulness of the idea or that service certainly
> doesn't justify spamming this group...

it's spam.

Davoud

Art Laurent
> > > Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!

nospam:
> > why would i want to do that?

Todd Allcock:
> Cross platform access to content?

I can do cross-platform access to my content via iTunes for Mac and
Windows. That iTunes doesn't run under CP/M or BeOS or Linux is of no
concern to me.

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Todd Allcock

At 11 Dec 2011 20:09:41 -0500 nospam wrote:
> In article <jc3h5j$9ni$2@dont-email.me>, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!
> > >
> > > why would i want to do that?
> >
> > Cross platform access to content?
>
> why would anyone want to use a browser to play music rather than a
> dedicated music app, most of which are multi-platform and designed for
> exactly that task?

"Most are multi-platform"? What clouds music storage services arte multi-
platform with native apps? Certainly not iCloud. If you have a broad
mix of mobile devices in the family as I do, multi-platform is an
important feature for services.

If I could play iCloud music in a browser, that would make it more useful
to me, because it would (might) allow playback on non-iOS mobile devices
in addition to the iPhones and iPods in the family.

Right now, competing services like Amazon Cloud Player or Google Music
are far more attractive to me, since they play on more devices (both play
on iOS in Safari.)

> > > rest of your spam deleted.
> >
> > Yep, any inherent usefulness of the idea or that service certainly
> > doesn't justify spamming this group...
>
> it's spam.


Right, but the fact that it's spam doesn't necessarily mean the idea or
product is a bad one, or that the company behind the product or service
is the one spamming it. It could be a rogue dealer, affiliate, or
salesperson.

I'm not suggesting that this particular service is worthy, just that the
idea itself isn't necessarily a bad one, seeing how virtually every major
player in the industry has a cloud media service.

Todd Allcock

At 11 Dec 2011 23:11:12 -0500 Davoud wrote:
> Art Laurent
> > > > Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!
>
> nospam:
> > > why would i want to do that?
>
> Todd Allcock:
> > Cross platform access to content?
>
> I can do cross-platform access to my content via iTunes for Mac and
> Windows. That iTunes doesn't run under CP/M or BeOS or Linux is of no
> concern to me.


I meant cross-platform in mobile devices, not the desktop. iTunes won't
load an Android device, for example.

And access to cloud-stored music in the browser or an app implies you're
away from your computer, else you could just sync. Unless you lug
whatever computer contains your entire iTunes library around with you
everywhere you go, cloud access to your media and data can be useful.

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In article <jc3vpk$8t2$1@dont-email.me>, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

> > > > > Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!
> > > >
> > > > why would i want to do that?
> > >
> > > Cross platform access to content?
> >
> > why would anyone want to use a browser to play music rather than a
> > dedicated music app, most of which are multi-platform and designed for
> > exactly that task?
>
> "Most are multi-platform"? What clouds music storage services arte multi-
> platform with native apps? Certainly not iCloud. If you have a broad
> mix of mobile devices in the family as I do, multi-platform is an
> important feature for services.

itunes runs on both mac and windows, therefore it's cross platform, and
you can also play music stored in icloud on an iphone, ipod touch or
ipad. that does leave out android and windows phone though.

> If I could play iCloud music in a browser, that would make it more useful
> to me, because it would (might) allow playback on non-iOS mobile devices
> in addition to the iPhones and iPods in the family.

using a browser on a smartphone to play music? seriously?? i can't
think of a worse way to do it.

> Right now, competing services like Amazon Cloud Player or Google Music
> are far more attractive to me, since they play on more devices (both play
> on iOS in Safari.)

good thing there's a choice!

> > > > rest of your spam deleted.
> > >
> > > Yep, any inherent usefulness of the idea or that service certainly
> > > doesn't justify spamming this group...
> >
> > it's spam.
>
> Right, but the fact that it's spam doesn't necessarily mean the idea or
> product is a bad one, or that the company behind the product or service
> is the one spamming it. It could be a rogue dealer, affiliate, or
> salesperson.

i didn't say it was bad because of spam, i said it was a bad idea *and*
it was spam. it doesn't have to be both, but in this case it is.

> I'm not suggesting that this particular service is worthy, just that the
> idea itself isn't necessarily a bad one, seeing how virtually every major
> player in the industry has a cloud media service.

it's not about cloud media, it's about using a browser to play music
when there are apps that do that already, and a much better job too.

Todd Allcock

At 12 Dec 2011 00:18:14 -0500 nospam wrote:
> In article <jc3vpk$8t2$1@dont-email.me>, Todd Allcock
> <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Enjoy your music collection directly from your browser!
> > > > >
> > > > > why would i want to do that?
> > > >
> > > > Cross platform access to content?
> > >
> > > why would anyone want to use a browser to play music rather than a
> > > dedicated music app, most of which are multi-platform and designed
for
> > > exactly that task?
> >
> > "Most are multi-platform"? What clouds music storage services arte
multi-
> > platform with native apps? Certainly not iCloud. If you have a broad
> > mix of mobile devices in the family as I do, multi-platform is an
> > important feature for services.
>
> itunes runs on both mac and windows, therefore it's cross platform, and
> you can also play music stored in icloud on an iphone, ipod touch or
> ipad. that does leave out android and windows phone though.
>
> > If I could play iCloud music in a browser, that would make it more
useful
> > to me, because it would (might) allow playback on non-iOS mobile
devices
> > in addition to the iPhones and iPods in the family.
>
> using a browser on a smartphone to play music? seriously?? i can't
> think of a worse way to do it.


Have you tried the Google Music webapp for iOS Safari? It's not quite as
good as a native app, but it's close.

Besides, with the large screens on smartphones today, the "double
standard" makes less and less sense. Why is an "app" needed on a phone
for a myriad of simple functions we routinely just use our browser for on
a computer? Do you have a Facebook app on your desktop? An Amazon app,
eBay app, or even a Pandora app? All of these "apps" could easily be
replaced with a decent mobile formatted website.

Long before we called the cloud "the cloud", people have used mobile
devices to fetch media. I streamed music on PDAs and phones with Orb
long before Orb made mobile apps, their software served up an excellent,
and easy to use mobile web interface (and still does) that allows you to
search for media as well as browse by artist, album, genre, etc., just
like a music player app. The browser didn't actually play the music of
course, it just found it, and passed off the actuall playback to the
device's native player, like a browser link on a desktop computer will
open in your media player.

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> i didn't say it was bad because of spam, i said it was a bad idea *and*
> it was spam. it doesn't have to be both, but in this case it is.
>
> > I'm not suggesting that this particular service is worthy, just that
the
> > idea itself isn't necessarily a bad one, seeing how virtually every
major
> > player in the industry has a cloud media service.
>
> it's not about cloud media, it's about using a browser to play music
> when there are apps that do that already, and a much better job too.


If your device is supported. Using a browser to play music is perfectly
fine if the browser handles it well, or passes the job off to the
device's native player. For example, Pandora hasn't made an app for
Windows Phone 7 yet, but since WP7's IE9 browser uses the same rendering
engine as the desktop version and supports HTML5, you can play Pandora
right in the browser without an app. Not optimal, perhaps, but better
than no access to Pandora at all.

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In article <jc6o1v$2to$1@dont-email.me>, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

> Besides, with the large screens on smartphones today, the "double
> standard" makes less and less sense. Why is an "app" needed on a phone
> for a myriad of simple functions we routinely just use our browser for on
> a computer? Do you have a Facebook app on your desktop? An Amazon app,
> eBay app, or even a Pandora app? All of these "apps" could easily be
> replaced with a decent mobile formatted website.

because dedicated apps generally do a much better job than a general
purpose browser. while it can mostly work, the user experience
generally is much worse.

plus, browsers generally do not have access to hardware specific
features. can you shake to shuffle that browser-player? not that i
think that's a useful feature, but just an example of something you
*can't* easily do in a browser.

i wouldn't want my desktop apps replaced with browser equivalents
either.